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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A four line stanza in a poem.






2. A character struggles against some outside force.






3. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






4. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






5. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






6. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






7. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






8. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






9. The person who 'tells' the story.






10. A short saying with a moral.






11. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






12. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






13. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






14. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






15. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






16. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






17. A poem that tells a story.






18. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






19. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






20. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






21. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






22. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






23. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






24. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






25. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






26. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






27. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






28. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






29. What a story or play is about.






30. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






31. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






32. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






33. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






34. A three-line stanza.






35. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






36. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






37. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






38. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






39. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






40. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






41. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






42. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






43. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






44. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






45. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






46. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






47. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






48. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






49. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






50. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.







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